A discussion with exercise scientist and conditioning coach Dr Jason Tee on the acute:chronic workload paradigm.
Dr Jason Tee is a sports coach and scientist with broad experience in the areas of talent development, injury prevention and coach education. He has worked across the development pathway from grassroot to international competition. Jason’s approach is to combine research evidence with practitioner experience to produce performance solutions with real-world effectiveness.
Jason is available for research supervision, coach education and development, and performance consulting. If you would like to get in touch or to check out his credentials have a look at his website: https://www.jasonctee.co.za/
Acute:Chronic workload ratio papers discussed in podcast
Gabbett, T.J., 2016. The training—injury prevention paradox: should athletes be training smarter and harder?. Br J Sports Med, 50(5), pp.273-280. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2015-095788
Williams, S., West, S., Cross, M.J. and Stokes, K.A., 2017. Better way to determine the acute: chronic workload ratio?. Br J Sports Med, 51(3), pp.209-210. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2016-096589
Lolli, L., Batterham, A.M., Hawkins, R., Kelly, D.M., Strudwick, A.J., Thorpe, R., Gregson, W. and Atkinson, G., 2019. Mathematical coupling causes spurious correlation within the conventional acute-to-chronic workload ratio calculations.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2017-098110
Wang, C., Vargas, J.T., Stokes, T., Steele, R. and Shrier, I., 2020. Analyzing activity and injury: lessons learned from the acute: chronic workload ratio. Sports Medicine, pp.1-12. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40279-020-01280-1
Albert Wang, Jack Healy, Nicholas Hyett, Geoffroy Berthelot & Katrine Okholm Kryger (2020) A systematic review on methodological variation in acute:chronic workload research in elite male football players, Science and Medicine in Football, DOI: 10.1080/24733938.2020.1765007
Impellizzeri, F., Wookcock, S., McCall, A., Ward, P. and Coutts, A.J., 2019. The acute-chronic workload ratio-injury figure and its ‘sweet spot’are flawed. https://osf.io/preprints/sportrxiv/gs8yu/
Impellizzeri, F.M., Tenan, M.S., Kempton, T., Novak, A. and Coutts, A.J., 2020. Acute: Chronic Workload Ratio: Conceptual Issues and Fundamental Pitfalls. International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance, 1(aop), pp.1-7. https://doi.org/10.1123/ijspp.2019-0864